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I'm pretty thankful for them finally coming to a city I live in (Vancouver) for once. I've travelled to see them on 4 different occasions in the last 10 years. But the funny thing is, i'm still contemplating going to another show as well!
Probably just the Tacoma, WA show as it's the most cost effective.
The Show is just that good! Once you've seen one Rammstein show, you have to attend another.

I saw them this year here in Tacoma and then at the final show in Vegas. Needless to say I'm thrilled at the chance to see them again. Looks like May 14th is the date! Now to get Johnbron and Lt. Randazzo up here.....

oh, and just in case you've been living under a rock, here's the new track

I can breath easy now! I Secured my floor tickets today to the Vancouver show!!
This band is truly amazing live.
Next, gonna try and get some tickets to Tacoma next week when they go on sale. Shouldn't be too hard, as me and my Girlfriend are going to grab some seats for that show. It's going to be the exact same show, but being able to see 2 different perspectives is always nice.

That's what we did earlier this year. Originally we were just going to go to the LA show, but we couldn't get floor. So I tried the Oakland (san fran) show, and we got floor, so we grabbed those, then we also figured, why not go to both, grabbed the seats to LA so we had 2 different perspectives of the show.

When you first asked me about it I was like oh, May is far away, I have time to think about it. But then saw you bought tickets already! thats crazy.

Yeah, the tickets sure went on sale goddamn early! But I think it's to try and get as many sales in as possible. They want to try and sell the shows out I'm guessing, that and the price for tickets is skyhigh (well, they are $150 each in Canada, assuming the US prices are similar).

But for anyone that has already seen their show live, they can vouch for the pricey admission cost that it is well worth it, as they put on one hell of a show!

Originally Posted by slave2thewage

Can we talk about how ~FIERCE~ the new setlist is yet?

The New setlist isn't too bad at all. I'm glad this is a best of tour, i'd much rather hear all the classics then a whole night of LIFAD.
I'm glad they put Mein Herz Brennt back into the setlist, that's one of their best songs.
Also like the addition of Sehnsucht and Mann Gagen Mann, and to a strange degree Amerika.
Amerika is such a cheesy song, but I think it would be a fun live song. I hope they keep the setlist similar to how it is when they come on their North American leg. I'm curious to see whether they will attempt to play Bück dich or not. That's another addition I am glad to see revived to the setlist.

Do they have an opening act lined up for the tour? That may incline me to purchase tickets depending on who opens.

No word on the north american leg yet, but currently Deathstars are opening their shows in Europe and will continue to do so on the UK dates in March 2012, but no word whether they will be opening for North America yet. I'd say the chances are pretty good considering Rammstein took Combichrist along with them during their 2009 European tour and then they chose them again for the 2010 American dates soooo... Hopefully that helped you on your decision, but once again they currently do not have an opener for their North American leg, so take it for what it is.

Got my ticket for the Vancouver show last Friday!! I opted for the cheap seats ($54), but it's not a huge arena, so the view will still be pretty good!

WONDERFUL! I think that makes 30 people who have bought tickets so far! Spread the word to your friends to prevent the show from being cancelled.

Seriously, there has been next to no advertising for this show, it's barely sold any tickets. FLOOR tickets are still available!
Usually floor tickets sell out in minutes at Rogers arena, I can't beleive floor is still available.

The other shows on the tour are selling just as poorly. Winnipeg still has floor available as well.

I think there are a few reasons for this:
1) The ticket price are waaaay too much, $155 for a floor or lower bowl seat is ridiculious!
2) It's too close to Christmas time
3) The tickets went on sale way to far in advance (6 mths)
4) Poor promotion
5) everyone spent their money on roger waters tickets? (I donno if Rammstein fans like Roger waters, haha so point might not be true, I just decided to add it anyway).

Heh, well I chose them over Roger. But you have valid points, especially the ludicrous price coming just before Christmas. I know people who I was telling to "get on it right away, it'll sell out in no time!!" but obviously that's not going to happen. If it gets cancelled I'm gonna be super-pissed, there haven't been any shows I've wanted to see this year, apart from SONOIO/Ladytron, and I missed that one.

We paid ~$100 a ticket, but that was for the lower bowl. Last May, the cheap seats were around $65 a piece. That kind of seems to be the going rate for tickets in general today. I think the early onsale dates are the biggest contributor to slower sales. The dates were barely announced before tickets became available, so I think there just wasn't enough time for everyone to get excited about them coming to North America again before sales started.

i just saw em november21st and will see em on dec 10th in stuttgart again-
show is amazing as always but i expected a lil bit more....they recycled most of the elements from past tours....
but anyway i was astonished and glad to hear a lot of old songs live again....
looking forward to next saturday